James Opp
Associate Professor
Department of History
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
James Opp Professor Degrees: B.A. (Augustana/Alberta), M.A. (Calgary), Ph.D. (Carleton)
Research Interest
Photography and the circulation of historical photographs Religion, gender and the body, 19-20th C Canada Visual culture and public history in Canada History of the archive Place, Memory, and Digital Representations of History Corporate advertising and photography
Publications
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“Picturing Communism: Yousuf Karsh, Canadair, and Cold War Advertising,†The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada, ed. Carol Payne and Andrea Kunard (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011).
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“Public history and the fragments of place: archaeology, history and heritage site development in southern Alberta,†Rethinking History 15, 2 (June 2011): 241-266.
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“Branding the Bay/la Baie: Corporate Identity, the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the Burden of History in the 1960s,†Canadian Historical Review 96, 2 (June 2015): 223-256.
